Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Cardinal CCF

Cleveland, OH · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal CCF runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cardinal CCF: 4.8 TCR = 216% of Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal CCF safety composite

Cardinal CCF scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Cardinal CCF: 4.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2018

Cardinal CCF's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.0 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 216% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #28/34
  • PHOTO 10D8110 PHARMA BOSTON
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10D8110 PHARMA BOSTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal CCF in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Cardinal CCF averages 4.8 TCR (216% of the Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Cardinal CCF TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal CCF falls in its industry

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 34 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole employers in Ohio.

Cardinal CCF (86 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal CCF
Cardinal CCF (86 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal CCF has fewer employees than the Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 6.7 5.6 6 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2016 4.0 1.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · OH · Cleveland

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 10D8110 PHARMA BOSTON 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-10D8138 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR World Bioproducts - Manufacturing Center 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-10D8165 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Preferred Real Estate Investments Inc 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welty Building Company 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Agri Systems - Napoleon 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE 104157 - Timber Road IV Wind Farm 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Integrated Landscape Management 746 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR KRC - North Central Region - Fargo 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmer of Texas Tanks, INC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Webb County 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tiger Drylac USA, INC. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #99 (Onalaska, WI) 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydro - Portland Fabricated Components 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branson Office 86 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.